Filter Results
:
(1,286)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(1,770)
- People (1)
- News (222)
- Research (1,286)
- Events (16)
- Multimedia (6)
- Faculty Publications (797)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(1,770)
- People (1)
- News (222)
- Research (1,286)
- Events (16)
- Multimedia (6)
- Faculty Publications (797)
Sort by
- 05 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
China Tariffs and Coronavirus a Double Hit to American Retailers
after a year and a half, companies have still only raised prices by around 2 percent, despite tariffs rising as high as 20 or 25 percent. “There are some mechanisms that retailers seem to be using to avoid increasing prices,” Cavallo...
View Details
Keywords:
by Michael Blanding
- 26 Jul 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Accountability of Independent Directors-Evidence from Firms Subject to Securities Litigation
Keywords:
by Francois Brochet & Suraj Srinivasan
- 13 Jan 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Intermediaries for the IP Market
Keywords:
by Andrei Hagiu & David Yoffie
- 11 Apr 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Managers and Market Capitalism
Keywords:
by Rebecca Henderson & Karthik Ramanna
- 31 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not
problems). We identified two mechanisms by which perceived leader support appears to influence creativity. By analyzing each diary entry that reported these types of leader behaviors, we identified one important View Details
Keywords:
by Martha Lagace
- 28 Jun 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Leviathan in Business: Varieties of State Capitalism and their Implications for Economic Performance
Keywords:
by Aldo Musacchio & Sergio G. Lazzarini
- February 2024
- Supplement
Dena Almansoori at e&: Fostering Culture Change at a UAE Telco Transforming to a Global Techco
By: Emily Truelove, Michelle Zhang and Alpana Thapar
Dena Almansoori, the first female and one of the youngest members of the United Arab Emirates-based e&’s leadership team, joined in 2020 just before e& began a strategic transition from being a regional telecommunications company to becoming a global technology...
View Details
Keywords:
Technology;
Telecommunications;
Employee Mobility;
Leading Change;
Human Resources;
Organizational Culture;
Transformation;
Talent and Talent Management;
Change Management;
Employee Relationship Management;
Telecommunications Industry;
Technology Industry;
Middle East;
United Arab Emirates
Truelove, Emily, Michelle Zhang, and Alpana Thapar. "Dena Almansoori at e&: Fostering Culture Change at a UAE Telco Transforming to a Global Techco." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 424-701, February 2024.
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
focus, setup minimization, etc. The products and services characteristic of our modern economy are far too complex for any one person to understand how they work. It is cognitively overwhelming. Therefore, organizations must have some View Details
- Research Summary
Overview
My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is...
View Details
- Research Summary
Overview
My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is...
View Details
- 06 Aug 2021
- Book
Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO
cruelty who remakes the industry and in some cases society." “There were charismatic business leaders in the 1950s and 1960s, just as there are CEOs today who are not charismatic,” writes Tedlow. “We are describing a general tendency away from the CEO as the chief...
View Details
Keywords:
by Dina Gerdeman
- July–August 2021
- Article
Surfacing the Submerged State: Operational Transparency Increases Trust in and Engagement with Government
By: Ryan W. Buell, Ethan Porter and Michael I. Norton
Problem definition: As trust in government reaches historic lows, frustration with government performance approaches record highs.
Academic/practical relevance: We propose that in co-productive settings like government services, peoples’ trust and...
View Details
Keywords:
Government Services;
Behavioral Operations;
Operational Transparency;
Government Administration;
Service Operations;
Programs;
Perception;
Attitudes;
Behavior;
Trust
Buell, Ryan W., Ethan Porter, and Michael I. Norton. "Surfacing the Submerged State: Operational Transparency Increases Trust in and Engagement with Government." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 23, no. 4 (July–August 2021): 781–802.
- 01 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People
self-sufficiency measures, suggesting that priming luxury is different from priming money. Future research should also examine the mechanisms through which luxury goods activate self-interests. We posit that several potential View Details
Keywords:
by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Budgeting Kills Your Company
It becomes a mechanism for ensuring not only that funds flow first to the strongest opportunities, but also that those opportunities actually deliver on their promise.
View Details
Keywords:
by Loren Gary
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
the business. On the other hand, the system guarded against risky strategic moves, albeit not completely, as Cole's failed attempts to acquire Allied Breweries demonstrated. At its best, the Special Committee provided a mechanism for...
View Details
- 17 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage
manage them. “The most effective leaders are those that have created mechanisms to find out what’s going on inside other people’s heads quickly,” he says. “Paying employees fairly is just one way to show them they are valued, but it’s...
View Details
Keywords:
by Michael Blanding
- 14 Apr 2022
- Op-Ed
Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned
reevaluate. Maintaining culture change requires measurement. Leaders should constantly reassess their progress by collecting feedback from a random representative sample at random intervals. The culture of continuous improvement is a robust accountability View Details
Keywords:
by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- 29 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines
- 20 Jan 2022
- Op-Ed
3 Steps to Help Companies Rebuild Trust During the Pandemic
should put together action plans at two levels: team and individual. First, at the team level, managers should ensure that each new policy also has a mechanism for receiving feedback and can be adjusted so policies are fair and...
View Details
Keywords:
by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- Research Summary
Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs ( Princeton University Press, October 2002)
By: Rakesh Khurana
In this book, I argue that the external CEO labor market was born in a burst of rhetoric about wresting control of corporations away from a group of self-interested insiders, as senior managers in the era of managerial capitalism had come to be portrayed. The rationale...
View Details